Micro-Commando Diatron-5

This is the original dubbing of Diatron 5, aka Space Transformers. May God have mercy of your black soul.
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Copyright Notice: This film is in the public domain. Attributed with the Creative Commons License.

[@tylersamuels4438]

I can't believe I finally found it! The nostalgia plus the fact that I didn't realize how absurdly goofy it was as a kid is going to make this so fun to rewatch.

[@ianwebb9859]

My father did the audio engineering for this dub. My mother and my father and my uncle and all of their friends did the voices. I love this movie! Something to consider is that all of the voice actors were inspired by American cartoons rather than japanese cartoons

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I'm sure, these were pretty typical voices I heard a lot in my 80's youth.

[@spaceman466]

Your dad was bad. And you should feel bad.

[@ianwebb9859]

@@spaceman466 😂

[@ianwebb9859]

@@spaceman466 only God is real

[@Takimeko]

I always thought the voice acting in this sounded like a bunch of people who've never seen an anime-esque thing in their lives. Would you happen to know who did the theme song for this dub?

[@BBmetalhead04]

When I was younger my parents rented this movie for me from Blockbuster, because I asked for something with robots in it. I remember back then that I loved this movie, and thought it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my young life. Since I was maybe 4 or 5, I never remember the name of this movie. It's only thanks to the internet that I've rediscovered this movie, and wow is this shit! Man young me was an idiot (probably still am).

[@filipfakles2253]

BBmetalhead04 Dont worry, you are not. That also happened to me when I was younger, and now I discovered that movies such as these are nothing but absolute shit.

[@SilverHairedFreak25]

This happened to me too. God this is terrible!

[@TheNormalDoor]

What are you talking about this is one of the film masterpieces of all time rivaling studio gibli themselves.

[@uzvisheni]

Same experience :D I just discovered it on YT for nostalgia sake. I remember as a kid I thought it was the best thing ever, I used to borrow the VHS from my neighbor every weekend. It had guns and robots and he shoots the bad guy, omg and they transform, I was in heaven ( big fan of the power rangers ) Thank god I did not understand English at 7-8, I also think it was translated. Tried to watch it now, could not go through it XD Had to skip most of it XD My god the voice acting is terrible...

[@GIRTHYANDITCURVES]

Like it obviously captures your imagination i just couldn’t psychoanalyze this shit when I was young the art style was all I could comprehend lmao 💀

[@davidsonsimeus3298]

I remember buying a physical disc copy of this when I was younger. It was totally worth it. Watching this really brings back nostalgia.

[@TheLambdaTeam]

LOL, when I wuz 5 yearz old, I went for the USSR for a week to visit our friendz there, an' they had 4 cartoonz for their video player, this wuz one of them. It never really troubled me that this had so low quality an' the storyline doesn't make sense, I kinda enjoyed it. I wuz lookin' for this for a decade until I found it. Oh da memoriez! BTW, I have the Hungarian version, the dub and the theme song is a trillion times better than the English one.

[@AerielTWG]

Man, did I love this cartoon as a kid! Especially the color palette and the music.

[@TheLambdaTeam]

Heh, I remember I visited some friends in USSR when I wuz 5 yearz old. They had a VHS player, and this wuz one of their cartoonz. It made no sense back then either, but hell, I enjoyed it. Oh da memoriez...

[@BenadrylJackson]

48:28 My favorite line. Deadpan voice: "I understand for the first time that it feels good to help somebody"

[@tomasburian6550]

Random echo on the voices is just a top notch "so bad it's good" :D

[@balladguitar910]

I got the DVD in a dollar bin 11 years ago. My friends and I would watch it and find something new and funny each time. Being drunk helps. The British accents dub is the funniest.

[@curly_fries]

yknow they dont make em like this anymore, awesome movie

[@TheMightyPika]

Things you will learn while watching Diatron-5: - All of Earth's defenses depends on an unusually intelligent teenage girl with no name. This is advertized and everyone knows it. - Humans have entire societies with castles and ancient cultures living inside their bodies - We have glands that produce strawberry ice cream. No, not pinkish blood, honest to god strawberry ice cream. - Today I saw a screaming harpy share a 50 Shades moment with a Barney-voiced robot - Shrink rays sound like someone playing ping pong in an echo chamber. - "Let's see who you really are" Scooby Doo reveals don't have the same effect if no one has any idea who the revealed person is. - Dr. Beeeaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr is having none of your shit. - Those outer space fight scenes in Macross and Gundam would be SO MUCH BETTER if they had music box songs playing over them. This movie made me physically ill. I don't know if it's the animation frame rate, the hideous color pallet, the nauseating sound design, or the story which seems to stubbornly defy any kind of logical flow. YOU decide!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

They're kinda calling her "Girl Genius", so I'm going with that name for this ESP chick.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I still love that commander at the beginning with his booming voice and slick hairstyle!

[@TreJowy]

Micro-Commando Diatron-5 is one of those films that comes to define a generation; the apex of an era's collective artistic and cultural development. Even so, its status as an expression of contemporary mores stands as a unique glimpse into an even more unique age: a time where human consciousness was best expressed in minimalist fashion, where we were closer-together than ever before so as to render base concepts such as "dialogue" and "story" completely and utterly meaningless. MCD5 = Perfect

[@orkeimmortal]

bullshit. it was a cheaply made movie that consisted of scenes and music ripped off from other animes. there is no meaning. it is funny though

[@TreJowy]

That's pretty much what I said.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

D E E P !

[@starofjustice1]

You don't scare me with that talk about my soul. I paid money for this originally! Like two bucks, but still, money!

[@Darkmind1970]

$2??? Seriously? 2c would be a rip-off. This crap is so bad I almost died laughing.

[@thishonestgrifter]

THIS IS BY FAR THE GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME! THE SHEER COURAGE OF THE WRITERS AND THE DIRECTOR TO DEPICT ANYTHING AS HORRIBLE AS THE FACE OF EVIL (which is an androgynous woman named mary) AND THE EMINENCE ACTING SKILL OF THE ACTOR, NEIGH THE SCREEN-GOD! THAT PLAYED ADMIRAL JIM JONES IS A HERO, NEIGH A SAINT. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THIS FILM YOU ARE DAMNED, AND I WEEP FOR THY SOUL.

[@ianwebb9859]

I agree!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Many years ago someone who had this tape made a MST3K-style riff of it with his friends I enjoyed watching.

[@aardeday000]

Lord, forgive HOSCA Production Inc. for their sins.

[@eliaveloso1869]

I don’t think Hosca was responsible for making this film,they just bought the rights to dub it and distribute it on VHS 📼 Hosca was also responsible for dubbing fairy tale Anime around the time Dia-Tron 5 too,but that’s about it.

[@nathansmith8845]

It's original take on Fantastic Voyage concept I'll give it that frigging awesome

[@Jakommo]

this cartoom deserves to be remastered

[@jackmcslay]

40:22 the two voice actors had a BDSM session they decided to record and put the audio in the film

[@EddieMillerStudios]

The first scene after the credits was re-used in Space Thunder Kids

[@jasongarrett768]

32:00 I never knew the human body had so many off-model Links in it. Dear God.

[@ssj2gohan83]

Lovely, isn't. 😄

[@Onomatopoeia001]

Oh my god, all of these Heathcliff VAs!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Damn, I wasn't sure who they were (one didn't even give her last name).

[@Takimeko]

You mean these VAs have been in other things?

[@MiXVoy]

Bennett the Sage and Spoony brought us here

[@Maryam-om1ej]

First Kids Sing Praise: Out Of This World The Movie I loved that first film

[@michelegreco8845]

감사합니다

[@youngkappakhan]

for some ungodly reason i watched all of it and no joke i have a headache now

[@ssj2gohan83]

sickk kunt ya, watching bad animated movies where either Joseph Lei was the director or producer will do that. He's a lot a better working on live action martial arts exploitation then this lovely abomination.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

At least nobody has headbands with "Ninja" written on them!

[@Shamandigi62091]

Leonard nemoy must be spinning in his grave right now

[@ChuckNorrisIsNothing]

i actually like the music at the burial scene of sherry (cherry?), it has some potential. Just shows you that in every pile of crap there is a small, small nugget of gold.

[@kanna-san.]

like Solar Adventure's dub opening?

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Ironically I have a CD of that opening theme tune that movie used. It's from Capitol's "Media Music" library.

[@redcomet_622]

@@ChristopherSobieniak by any chance can you tell me the name of that cd that had that song

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@redcomet_622 I'll have to check when I get back home. Out at the moment. The CD also happens to have a different arrangement from the original LP release in terms of how tracks were presented.

[@redcomet_622]

@@ChristopherSobieniak please notity me when you find the name of the CD

[@neosoc]

26:42 DOCTOR BEARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

That was a good part!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Maybe the professor's suddenly turning into one!

[@redbake]

Skip to 40:19-41:08, now close your eyes and listen, your welcome.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I did that the first time this came up 20 years ago!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

It was just so perfect!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

It's also telling the sound effects budget suddenly ran out at the right time!

[@Takimeko]

I swear, one of the VAs sound like Dave Coulier.

[@marcjones4351]

*Sage and The Spoony One see this and scream simultaneously*

[@TalkernateHistory]

41:06 Votoms franchise getting BTFO

[@StarfactoAdventure]

Why does anime food look so good

[@parkinglot1682]

Theres something charming about ut

[@TheLambdaTeam]

*The Hungarian version theme song is a trillion times better.*

[@YayAkiba]

So there's a whole universe inside someone's body? Huh?

[@squidgirl996]

awesome

[@Yell0wCheese]

10/10 movie

[@glennquagmire7573]

Hell yeah! I wish I could rate it higher.

[@yukinomose5728]

how I would like to see Lily with ither clothes, she seems so cute

[@ToyBop2011]

So bad...yet i keep on watching anyway?

[@elcamino01]

11:21 - 11:22 the missiles were already in fire position lol

[@GIRTHYANDITCURVES]

I thought this anime was a fever dream

[@phantomdragon3893]

Dr. Beeeaaar

[@unclestone8406]

The little red idiot robo-pilot of Diatron-3? "Biphon", was it? Yeah. He's a ripoff of the Vifam from "Ginga Hyoryuu Vifam/Round Vernian Vifam", one of Sunrise's non-Gundam mecha shows in the early-mid eighties. Out of all the absolute *nuttery* in this film, this is the only thing that makes even the slightest bit of sense to me... aaaand now my brain has gone into a flat spin...

[@youngkappakhan]

There's also shit stolen from Armored Trooper VOTOMS and Space Runaway Ideon

[@balladguitar910]

32:30 This version loses so much of the comedy. When Samba is talking about killing red soldiers and the girl laughs, in the British version he says, "You want to get punched in the face or something huh?" Then in the exchange with the Coward "Chi", samba is called a fat toad. Geez

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

This dub still kinda worked to compliment the crappy animation anyway, that was how I first saw this in the 90's.

[@eliaveloso1869]

@@ChristopherSobieniak how did you first saw it and what year did you see it?.Did you buy the VHS 📼 tape or rent it?

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@eliaveloso1869 What I had was a fan circulated tape I probably got in the late 90's. It was called "Anime MST3K" and basically had this video with an added soundtrack of a few viewers heckling it like the show.

[@juanmatheosaltosintriago9860]

22:04

[@michaelhawthrone2184]

Nowhere near the classic British voices but still a good laugh.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Hong Kong voices actually, or whoever they had down there.

[@alonsoarauz7744]

is a work to ideon great influence, but it is a copy of the above said

[@sharosudo]

so bad it's good.

[@Drixenol86]

Is that a Votom?!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Yep, the Scopedog!

[@youngkappakhan]

VOTOMS, the S is part of the acronym

[@ngrey651]

31:28. That was when I began to gape. 31:51. That was when I could not believe my EYES on what I was seeing. I mean...Jesus tap dancing Christ, what in holy living hell am I LOOKING at!? :O

[@glennquagmire7573]

Bobsamurai brought me here.

[@rembpilot172]

It's a very strange moof i see, but could you point some of the bad moments on it?, i dont get it completely

[@rembpilot172]

+rembpilot172 yeah ... it sucks

[@patrickjohnson1649]

26:42 WATCH YOUR MOUTH!!!

[@rushifellpainting4631]

Am I high?

[@Morphgeek]

What year did this come out

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

1985

[@shinmestrehayatojin7241]

35:37 Parece o Robô do Votoms essa coisa Verde ai

[@alirazavi2254]

Noice

[@석종훈-k2n]

한국말로들려주세요

[@vairntalmor6989]

that was the worst thing ive seen in a long while.

[@michaelf9kchromethousand549]

dafuq

[@지용장-k5k]

Koean ani

[@muktongx]

자랑은 아님... 줄거리는 마이크로 결사대 표절 악당 보스는 이제보니 전설거신 이데온에서 나온 인물 '기제 자랄' 옷차림에 색깔만 살짝 바꾸고 얼굴을 약간 바꾼 수준 로봇은 1980년작인 다이아클론 지구의 메카들 중 배틀 버팔로(バトルバッファロー), 빅파워드(ビッグパワード) 그리고 외계인침략군의 주력 메카인 와루다로스(ワルダロス)를 베껴 그린 거

[@JustTheWon]

Thats it!UNSUBSCRIBE!!!!!

[@TheValkyrianPokemon]

Awful yet terrible

[@11062222]

Korean fake animation

[@muktongx]

당시 한국에서 마구찍어내기로 만들어 개봉하던 시절 ㅡ ㅡ 2000년대 와서 저런 애니 제작에 참여하던 이가 딴지일보라는 곳 인터뷰하니 그야말로 대충 후다다닥 만들어 개봉했다고